Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-17

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IyESEvER HAD ANYTHING SINCE.
Stand ut the bar OF u London music hall
for an hour almost any night, and You will
see professional life in various stages. The
dashiug Bessie RellwOOd, after her great
song, ''Oh I'm 50 afraid of YOU mel"
comes up with a detachment OF male ad-
mireS, each struggling to give the first
order for champagne. A pop and a tizz
and then 4 hand sparkling with gems toss
~ down a glass Of POmmery. No time is
TO be lost. Slap goes the glass on the
counter, and the fayOrite coincidence, with
huge diamonds glittering in her ears, and
her plump form encaSed in y tight fitting
sealskiu, ruShCs to the awaiting carriage.
In A few minutes she will appear before
another enthusiastic London audience.
Hardly is the cOmmOtiOn OF this depart
ure over when up comes BeSsie's predeeeS-
sol. whose name il Lily Wilford, and q
faded lily it is. To use the favOrite term
OF her former admirers, she has gone
OF, and is c~OarSely reminded OF il as she
walks up to the bar. There is no cry of
champagne from high-collared youths.
There was no cOmmOtlon when Lily went
out; there was little applause when she
finished her score, no encore and no ehO-
rus. She WAS dressed in a yellow cloth
Newmarket, and would have escaped uu-
recognized by the hangers-on had not the
manager noticed her.
Take something, Miss W" said
the manager, who WAS acurly-headed man
much given to pOmatum and checkerhOard
rOuserS.
Little drop OF Scotch; not six, four
will do
Lily drank the four penny worth OF
Scotch whisky in silence, and then the
manager, eyeing her critically, said:
Not 50 plump as you used To be
But / can't keep plump while ave
10 dance so much. | ave to work very
ard to keep myself in tights and respect
able.
This was said with evident irritation at
the managers remark.
Those who patrOnZe London music halls
are tickle creatures, and women can rarely
retain their popularity more than two or
three seasons. Men, however, IS a rule
are more successful. A EayOrite feature OF
the London music nails IL trapeze perform
ing, tight rope dancing and all sorts OF
acrobatlc feats. One OF the latest artists
in this lns u man who stands ON his head
in 4 trapeZe. drinks wine, smokes cigars,
eats oranges. plays the fiddle, shoots OF
pistols aud "A variety of other acts liz
looked dangerous, and conducive 20 o a
gestion OF the brain, but perhaps nature
had carefully guarded against the batter
result. At another place a rotnnd British
blonde travelled mp and down a spiral
column on a globe, much to the JOY OF the
audience.
The total number OF music halls has
been gwen in a previous letter, namely,
40. OF this number the MiddleseS mag
istrates license 3l7, together holding about
81, 900 persons. These music halls III
clude three of the first class, holding from
5000 TO 20, 900; six second class halls,
holding from 1000 to {, 900; thirteen third
class halls, holding from 500 to l,5OOi
So fourth class halls, holding from 300 to
TOO, and 272 smaller places, some oil them
merely rooms connected with pub!lc
houses, in which sing songs and free
and easys" are held. The Surry magls'
trates license 81 music halls. These are
located on the south side of the Thames
and are OF the smaller type. The best
known music halls are, of course, the At
hambra, the Aquarium, the Pavilion, the
TrOcadero, the Oxford, the Royal, aud the
music halls attached to the various
palaces. In fact, hardly any place OF en-
tertainment in London IL complete WITH
out a music hall attachment. Ihe
Japanese village has found il necessary
10 add a music hall to its attraction; 50
have most OF the exhibitions and all the
Peoples palaces.
One OF the oldest places of entertain
ment in London is the T~rocadero, formerly
the Argyll Rooms. On the site OF thess
rooms at the upper end of the Hay market,
once stood Piccadilla Hall, where plceadll'
las, OF turnovers, were sold, which gave
name TO that vast street called from thai
circumstance PiccadiDy. Over two cen
turtles ago this hall was described a. a laii
house of entertainment and gaming, VIII
handsome gravel walks and with shade,
aud where were an upper and q lower bowl
ing-green, whittier went many OF nobihty
and gentry Of the best quality resorted loi
exercise and conversation"
On Windmill Street, near the presen'
IrOcadero, lived Colonel Godfrey, wnoSt
wife, Arabella Churchill, sister of John,
Duke Of Marlborough, had been the mis-
tress Of James ii. when Duke OF YORK.
Arabella, like the Churchills Of the present
day, was not remarkable for her beauty, u
the merry monarch, Charles IL, used 70
say OF his brothers ugly mistress thst nls
hther eOnfessOT must have selected her Oy
way of penaDce.
The rooms originally bearing the name
Oh The Argyll2 stood at the corner Of
Lttle Argyll street. and were far more
arEstOcratie, though not less vicions than
Ine late Argyll Rooms, which are probably
Known TO some American travellers. a
letter dated 1898 gives some idea OF the
Olglnal Argyll Street Rooms i,
The wives and daughters Of your mos
respectable country gentlemen no sooner
Snye IN London than, forgetting all nlg
I0ellngs Of conscious virtue and hereditary
PRIDE, they seem anxious to purchase ~
SIy price, the honor Of belonging 70 Ins
Atnaeks' To obtain this distinction
Iothers entruSt their fair young daughter
ot9e care Of peereSses, whose indiseretloh'
T%Uuld long since have banished theta IRON
Al association with the best OF their owI
M mad not their lords been conveniently
"Ina totheir failings."
Ane Argyll rooms OF the present genera
-oh oieame so openly bad and demoraiiz
~ mat they were closed by the authori
A0c and In ponrdapaa Nth British Gus